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Dissent

Egyptian Judges shock world again, condemning 683 Muslim Brothers to Death

Juan Cole 04/30/2014

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Egypt’s judiciary accused of being arm of repression (via AFP)

A wave of mass sentences in Egypt, including hundreds sentenced to death this week after a rushed mass trial, has sparked charges that military-installed authorities are using the judiciary as a blunt tool of repression. The sentences handed out Monday…

 

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Filed Under: Dissent, Egypt, Islam, Muslim Brotherhood, political Islam

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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